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E275: Hugh Harlin
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On November 1, 1986, 51-year-old Morro Bay fisherman Hugh Harlin vanished along Highway 1 between San Simeon and Cambria, California. His truck was discovered roadside under suspicious circumstances—but not a trace of Hugh. Did he flee secrets tied to his wife’s unsolved murder, or did the same hand that strangled Dian Harlin in 1982 come for him, too?
For context, you’ll likely want to start with last week’s episode on Dian Harlin first: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e274-dian-harlin/id1492318464?i=1000723044083
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The Unsolved Mystery of Diane Harlan
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More O'Base still carries the echoes of that chilling autumn in 1982, when the quiet rhythm of the coast was brutally interrupted by the discovery of Diane Harlan's body. Her murder, a haunting puzzle unsolved, cast a long shadow over the sleepy fishing village.
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Four Years later, as the town perhaps began to believe the worst was behind them, the shadow deepened. On a November day in 1986, just 27 miles up the coast from where Diane's life ended, the mystery twisted into an even more perplexing disappearance, drawing her husband into the heart of another mystery.
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This man, a quirky fisherman with a familiar face around town, set out for a two-day construction job in San Simeon. He left a friend's house after borrowing some tools, and that was the last time anyone saw him.
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A few days later, a disturbing discovery was made near Cambria, his pickup truck, a 1967 Chevy utility bed, abandoned on the side of Highway 1. The scene was quiet, yet filled with questions.
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The hood was up, the doors locked, and his personal belongings, glasses, backpack, sleeping bag, and even his usual tin of tobacco were left behind on the dash. The keys were found on the ground nearby, and a crucial fuel line had been removed from his vehicle.
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Had he fled a past he couldn't outrun, burdened by secrets about his wife's death, or did he too become a victim of the same unseen hand that choked the life from Diane? His disappearance remains as stubbornly unsolved as Diane's murder, leaving more obeyed to wonder if the same dark current pulled them both under. This is the chilling story of Hugh Harlan.
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Welcome to Coffee and Cases, where we like our coffee hot and our cases cold. My name is Allison Williams. And my name is Maggie Dameron. We will be telling stories each week in the hopes that someone out there with any information concerning the cases will take those tips to law enforcement so justice and closure can be brought to these families.
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So sit back, sip your coffee, and listen to what's brewing this week.
Rare Cases of Multiple Disappearances in Families
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We've covered at least one case before where there were two people... in the same family who disappeared at different times.
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But I don't think we've ever done a husband and wife. It was a mother and her daughter. I don't remember yesterday, so... Well, Maggie, you probably wouldn't remember this one because it was way back in episode 243, which I know doesn't sound like it was that Yeah, don't even know what one we're on now. We're on episode 275.
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Yep, 275. 243 was September So um almost a year ago two thousand and twenty four so that's why your're god you wow Wow.
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And if I sound weird, please excuse me. I never have allergies. It's usually Maggie. She's got the back to school cred. Yeah. It's hit me hard. So here we are. But I'm excited.
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I'm not excited to hear about this case, but I'm intrigued. There you go. By the fact that. See what connections we can make. Yes. Yes. So obviously we remember, and if you didn't listen to Diane's case, maybe you want to go back and and listen to that one. Yeah.
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Because you may be a little confused because I feel like you'd miss a lot. Yeah. So we already know that most people consider this town charming, but it is one that I feel like we could say probably has a sinister feeling about it.
Who Was Hugh Harlan?
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Well, definitely with two. Well, let me tell you, I'm not 100% sure. Definitely.
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um I remember in my research, like, you know how on Sun articles people can like post comments? Yeah. um I saved it because going to go back. But they were talking about, oh, yeah, that he is from the same town that this man went missing from. So there was another person. So I'm going to look and see. So we might have a third. and my goodness. From this small town? I think Sally might have a third or at least the same area. Wow.
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So Hugh is who is at the center of our case today. So i just want to briefly reintroduce him. So he was born in 1935 and he was 51 years old when he disappeared.
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um He was white. He was just an average build man, about 5'8", about 140 pounds. He had the thinning gray hair and the blue eyes. Remember that one picture? He looked like he belonged in the Hatfield McCoy. right But then we saw other picture and it was like, oh no, that was just. right And then I questioned where his hand was. Yes. Yeah.
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yeah but Because he was missing the thumb and his forefinger on his left hand. yeah And then he had that big bushy beard and always had that like yeah the hat on yeah So he was well known around the bay as a self-employed fisherman, and manual laborer, and a handyman who most of the time did his work for free. Right. I remember you saying that because they would have financial struggles and then he'd be like, you don't have to pay me. Right.
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And then he would complain about her spending all the money on the dogs. with
The Disappearance of Hugh Harlan
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And that's when you said, believe at that point, it's an us problem. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. That's exactly right. So he was seen by the community as kind of of different. I don't want to use the word quirky because one, it's hard to say. And two, i just you don't feel like I don't. Yeah, I don't like it.
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But he generally got along well with others and was described as social. Okay. So one local businesswoman even told a story that he would often stop by her business when they were unloading fish and he would just roll up his sleeves and pitch in.
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Well, that's kind. I know. That's what I thought, too. And, you know, when I was. everybody do that? Can everybody nice? Just be nice. Mm-hmm. So this actually reminded me. So when I was researching this case, there had been a storm back home.
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And I saw Anthony's cousin posted a picture and some videos, I think, of her dad there had been There was a tree that had fallen on the main highway. And the highway department hadn't come to clean it. And he was out there with a chainsaw cleaning it so people could get by all by himself. Yes.
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The world would be a much better place. If we were just all nice. Yeah. So what is remarkable, though, is that after hours of work, sometimes six, seven, or even 10 hours later, at these types of rolling up the sleeves and just jumping in when people would offer him money, he wouldn't take it. So when I think of a handyman and you're not taking the money, it's like, hey, I locked my keys in the car. Can you come help me? Right. And it's like. Maybe you're there an hour. Not 10. But these were like full days.
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That's when you like shove the money in your pocket. Or to hide it. Yes. Yeah. You say you're taking it. Yeah, because I work with a girl that she'll never take money, so then sometimes I hide it under her keyboard in regular places. So then maybe she'll find out. like, I must have asked this here. I don't think I did that you. You did. my console. Oh, my God.
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But he was, as you can guess, known as a very nice person, willing to help everyone. and But despite this generosity, as we talked about, they did face many problems, partly because he sometimes didn't charge for his services. Right. And as I mentioned, partly because Diane was known as the dogs. Her dogs, neighbor dogs, stray dogs.
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All dogs. All dogs. So feel like both maybe were not very financially responsible. I would agree. As we talked about in the last episode, their relationship was, by all accounts, quite stormy. Remember, it was described as turbulent, rocky, difficult. um People talked about that he would kind of say things or she would say things that, like, picked at his nerves. And then remember, some people even claimed that she would sneak dog food into, like, his dinners, like, into casseroles. That was the river.
Re-examining Diane Harlan's Murder
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Which, but you know, no whatever. yeah So this background on their tumultuous marriage and Diane's
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hobbies, feel like it a crucial context for understanding Hugh's life, his character, and the environment that he lived in and navigated through. yeah So while Diane's tragic story, including the full details of her murder investigation and the surrounding theories, is going to be brought up...
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Somewhat in this case. Right. It's so extensive that we did do a previous. Correct. and so Yes. yeah But I do want to give just a short summary in case you did not go back and listen to Diane's case. So make sure you go back. Yeah. Because you to hear all all the details so you can come up with your own conclusion of what happened. Because hers was strange, I think. Yeah.
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So we know that they're both from Morro Bay. She was nicknamed the Dog Lady. We'll say she was deeply devoted to her pets. So on October second she was last seen walking her dogs near the high school. And hours later, if you remember, the dogs returned home without her.
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And Hugh's neighbor is like, hey, you need to call the police. And Hugh's like... Not today. Yeah. Right. Because we talked about that. like why would... Why would you not? Yes.
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And was it normal that the dogs would return home without her? Because he said it was normal for her to be gone for extended periods of time, but... The dogs coming back without her was that normal. And she was supposedly going someplace because of the death of a death of a dog. And so that's where he was like, oh, no worries. She's probably elsewhere. Right. And then 11 days later, they find her yeah strangled by the dog leash. She's identified with...
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the
Was Hugh Harlan's Disappearance Staged?
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jewelry. And remember, Hugh has the inconsistent story because he's at first like, oh, they had their leashes on when they came back. That's right. That's right. And then the police were like, well, she was strangled by the dog leash. And he said, oh, just kidding. They didn't have a... And I'm torn on that because we talk all the time about how if something out of the ordinary happens, you're more likely to remember it.
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And so on the one hand, I feel like, well, I mean... I don't know. if it If it were an uncommon occurrence that the dogs would come back without her, then I feel like he would remember whether they had their leashes or not.
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If it happened all the time. Then he just opened the door and let them in. Right, because we're not, her body's not found until almost two weeks later. And he's trying to remember what happened on that particular day.
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So investigators did have a lot of theories. So they thought that Hugh may have been involved. He was hiding something, um maybe knew more than what he was letting on.
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They thought maybe Diane was the victim of a random person or that... She knew maybe someone was watching her. Hugh himself, remember said that remember, said that she died of the... Because she had the aneurysm that sometimes she took the medicine for instance. Oh, that's right. And he's like, our astrologer said that she died from the aneurysm.
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Which could have... But then it doesn't explain so much. Right. Also, I feel like maybe astrologers aren't the most credible doctors to... speak with about medical things, but know.
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Now we're up to Hugh's story. Okay. So his begins on November 1st, so four years after, in 1986, four years after his wife's death. Hugh set off to what seemed like just a normal routine job. Okay. So he went to the home of his friend Steve to borrow. Do we know if he's been living in his same house this whole time? Like, did he move? Did he?
Investigating Hugh's Abandoned Truck
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I don't know that, but I would assume he didn't. i mean, he wasn't paying anything. Oh, that's right. They were living free. lived for free. So that's, yeah. Yeah. Okay, sorry. So he goes to his friend Steve's house to borrow some tools because he got a like, two-day construction job offer in San Simeon, which was about 27 miles north of where they lived. So that is the last time that we see he was, as he was leaving for this job, ah feel like this time frame is kind of long, like,
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They say between 9 a.m. m and 1.30 p.m. I feel like that is a big span of time when he left. Like for a place that's 27 miles away? Is what you said? Yeah, and I feel like you would know, oh, he left right after I ate breakfast. Or, oh, I'm going eat lunch right after he left. Like, I think that's a big span of time to not know when he left.
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I agree. The property owner, so when they realize that he doesn't come back, which I'm probably skipping ahead, but the property owner at the job did indicate to investigators that it appeared that he had been there because the work was completed. So somebody did.
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and who else would have done? Right. Because I guess who would have known? so me Maybe that's why. i mean, maybe somebody saw him earlier, and then he went to do the job, and then he came back. Right, because guess 27 miles really isn't that far. oh and then maybe he came back, and somebody else saw him, and then he was on his way back to the, I don't know, maybe he forgot something, like a towel he borrowed.
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Or maybe, oh because it was two days, no, so he wouldn't be done. But yeah, that's a good point, that he forgot something and he had to come back. Forgot to let the dog out to me. Who knows?
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But we do know that he never returned home. So after being last in between that time, most sources tend to say that it's towards the lunch time. Okay. A mutual friend
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Okay, so, okay, okay, you know what, I'm just gonna go. yeah So, a mutual friend did spot Hugh's truck on the side of the road, and he, at first, didn't think anything of it, but then it was noted that it had been there for a couple of days, like a day or so.
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And so this mutual friend lived in Cambria, which was about 10 miles south of San Simeon and 20 miles north of Morro Bay. I feel like I need a map, like one of those where you connect in the middle. Okay. Yes.
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So it was a few days later, maybe three or so. Okay. That's what research tends to say. After Hugh was last seen, that this mutual friend, and he, between Hugh and Steve. Okay.
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Drive it to Cambria to physically check out Hugh's abandoned truck. So Steve ends up going along with him. This mutual friend, Eddie, is like, hey. We're going to check out the truck. So they want to check it out for themselves.
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and Are they sure at this point that it's Hughes or they're like, hey, this looks an awful lot like Hughes and we haven't seen him. Maybe we should go see it. I think you would know that it's his because remember, this was like 1986 and his truck was 1967 Chevy. So it's an older one.
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so they wouldn see its an old yeah Not maybe as and it popular of a make. Maggie's showing me a picture. It's blue. Mm-hmm. So, i mean, that would be— it would be, yeah, distinguishable.
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So they did end up finding his truck deserted on the side of Highway 1. As I mentioned, the hood was up. The doors were locked. Hmm. Inside the truck, they found several of Hugh's personal possessions. As I mentioned, his glasses, his backpack, a sleeping bag, because he's probably just sleeping in his truck, right? If he's just doing that two-day job. Yeah.
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Because I'm assuming he's sleeping in his truck they have no money and it's just the two days. Right. So also inside the locked truck were his tools, and he always had tiny tins of tobacco. And had to Google this, ragweed pot?
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What the heck is that? Okay, because I was like, I know what pot is, obviously. Like, I'm not that... naive. I know that we've had to had these discussions before, but then I was like, is ragweed pot like some type of chewing tobacco? Yeah, have no idea. I wasn't sure.
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We sound like we're five. Anyways, so I had to Google it and it is, I guess, just like a poor quality marijuana that he regularly smoked.
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Oh. Yeah. Okay. So he had this, like, smoking tobacco and... Poor man's marijuana. Yes. Okay. Also inside the truck was his lunch, which I think is weird. And the keys to the truck, because remember it's locked... was getting ready to ask that....were found just a few feet away on the ground.
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Okay. So, first of all, when you said his glasses were in the air, but I think in most of the pictures I saw of him, I don't think he was wearing glasses. No, have just been, like, readers. So, right. Right. That, not weird. Also not weird that he locked up the tools because you wouldn't want somebody to take them, and he borrowed them.
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Lunch is weird unless he thought he was going to come right back. for me What really strikes me are the keys only a few feet away. Yeah. Because obviously he would need those, and why not stick those in a pocket?
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So what made the situation even more suspicious, past the keys on the ground, right sleeping bag left, and all of that stuff, is that Hugh's friends found that a fuel line had been removed from the truck.
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Oh. we But nothing at the scene suggested any sort of a struggle had occurred. So was it just like... a thief saw this abandoned truck and they needed a fuel line.
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like, hey, I need a Let me take this I don't know. Or is that the reason the truck was abandoned? Because something had happened to the fuel line? So he takes it off. So he's like, okay, if I go to AutoZone or wherever, like I know what, I don't know fuel lines come in different, if it's different yeah depending on what vehicle you're driving. I thought you could put WD-40 on your brakes and you can't do that. know.
Speculations and Theories
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fire So but it could be something like that. Right. And he like knows the needs are placed. Right. So he's taking it. He's going to walk somewhere. Maybe drop the keys. That's true.
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He could have just me like he thought he put them in his pocket. Right. But he missed his pocket. And maybe the way it hit the ground, he didn't hear. he's like the person off of um the Polar Express. And he's got a hole in his pocket. There you go. As my little sleuth hound would say in his pocket.
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In his pocket. Yeah. She goes, she'll say, Baffy, pop it, because he puts his patsy in his pocket. Oh, my goodness. Precious. Anyways, so after the scene, the truck is discovered.
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He was reported missing on November 4th. But the despite deputies checking the area and a search and rescue team, combing a large area around the truck for four days, they found nothing, and he has never been heard from again. well clearly something happened to him. Right, so let's talk about what could have happened.
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So his disappearance obviously has spawned several theories, none of which, in my opinion, fully explain these perplexing circumstances. So one prominent theory is that Hugh staged his own disappearance, which I kind of think could be a possibility. So some people say that he vanished. And remember, we talked about in Diane's episode that he was like a man that could live off the land. Yes. Yes. He didn't need modern conveniences. Yes, because said are not like that. Right.
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So some people believe that he vanished on his own. Off the grid. Due to Diane's murder. Maybe he was getting a lot of backlash, maybe. Or like media attention that he didn't like. Or maybe he was responsible like some way, he was responsible or did no more. So he's bleeding. Okay.
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So some of the detectives is worked on his case, noted that he had previously been questioned about his wife's homicide, so could this have been related?
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His friend Steve even told police that he was smart enough to live off the land. He said, quote, smart enough and crafty enough to engineer his own disappearance. Oh. So, he was also— because some people could be yeah survivalists, yeah but not crafty enough right to— Plan the disappearance. Right.
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But the likelihood of him successfully disappearing, to some, seems slim, because he had the minimal financial resources. mean, that's true. He had the striking appearance. He had that missing finger and the— Oh, so he might definitely be recognizable. But then I'm like, if you are living completely off the grid, like if he needs nothing, right? Right. Like he can make, he can hunt for his own food and his food. he doesn't need to a grocery store. Right. Finds a water source.
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That's it. And start a fire. That's all he needs. Yeah. And find a shelter or build one. And he adds some pools. He's singing songs to himself for entertainment, though. Well, some people may like, maybe he likes the solitude after all the dogs. Meanwhile, what happened to all the dogs? Now worried about them. I haven't thought about them until just now. no.
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They're there in the house. Surely somebody came together. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or maybe he, like, rehomed them after something happened to Diane. Maybe he didn't even know. And know what? If he left them in that house when he disappeared and it was engineered by himself, this disappearance, then shame on him because he just left those don't You know something else
Connecting the Disappearances
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I really worry about? This is my brain, people. This is me.
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Okay. and This is real. I was thinking about this yesterday and started crying. Okay. Say that the Lord comes back, okay? Like, tomorrow. Okay. What happens? To the past? Yes. do my dogs and cat get taken up?
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What happens? don't mean someone to know. All dogs go to heaven. Whatever. Pets. I can't leave my cat. Well, they would, because they would be in the house. They would die.
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See, when I was little, though, when we went to church and they showed a film once and they talked about how pets don't go to heaven, and I remember crying to my mom. Were you raised in our madness? Yeah. I feel like we've got a whole lot of trauma.
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Emotional damage. We do. It's fine. Including what happens to our cat. Yeah, we're both about the photograph to cry. We're moving on. We're moving on. Okay. Another possibility offered by some of his friends is that he just left for unrelated reasons.
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and Again, the survivalist nature, he could have done that. He had taken off for extended outings. Okay. But his friends stressed that he always told someone where he was going in this time. Yeah.
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Out. Okay. Now, will I'm going to nix that theory. Yeah. There is, however, a strong and somewhat disturbing theory that Hugh met with foul play and that he was harmed by the same person or persons who killed Diane. So even though, because remember, he is initially a suspect and they rule him out as a suspect in Diane's murder.
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Investigators later stated that they didn't believe that He told them everything that he knew. So was he possibly concealing some facts out of fear?
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So one of the detectives suspected Hugh was hiding a secret and might have been harmed by Diane's killer because he knew too much. So, like, did he know what happened to Diane and was killed, like, so he would be quiet?
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So this is where my mind is going. In cases like this, a lot of times, and i there's a reason why, people, i am not saying initially that it was Diane who did something bad, but if Hugh had done something bad...
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If whoever he did wrong wanted to send a message, they're not going to do something to him first. Right, because he would be dead. Right. And they want payback or whatever. Right. They're going to do something to somebody who he cares about deeply. So maybe that explains Diane. Right. And would also then explain his eventual disappearance.
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Right. I don't know. mean, i think it makes sense. Many people believe that he just wouldn't leave his truck abandoned on the side of the road with all those possessions still in inside. Right.
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So— A lot of people think someone took care of him. Yeah. That's what a lot of people believe. A more mundane, though still unresolved theory related to the truck's condition is that Hugh simply encountered mechanical problems since the fuel line had been removed.
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Friends have theorized that he might have taken off to a service station for repairs. But if that were the case... Why the keys, which we talked about. he could have dropped them. Could have been a hole in his puppet.
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And why? But why no trace of him for decades? and Right. Right. He got lost. Yeah. But you're following a road. Yeah. So how could you get lost? Unless he's like, survivalist, I know a shortcut. Yeah. And then he ends up lost. Like the quickest way between two points is a straight line and he tries to go. And then Right. Right.
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goes off But I still feel like— Yeah. If he's a survivalist,
Call to Action for Listeners
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yeah. yeah He can last and be like, well, I'll just sleep here tonight and start again tomorrow and be fine. Some say, even despite the survivalist skills, that he had maybe gone ah purposefully into the wilderness. Maybe he's camping. Maybe he was trying to run away um and died accidentally in there or maybe died by suicide Overwhelmed by, like, this weight of suspicion, grief, potentially guilt, and the lack of the body obviously keeps the suicide theory and some people's minds because we don't know.
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we don't know. Right. I guess another more sinister theory is that he murdered Diane and then fled, even those years later, to avoid an eventual arrest.
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Hence a fabricated... Yes. disappearance. So some who believe this version think his disappearance was another carefully orchestrated act to avoid justice. Right.
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So I don't know. So don't know. I'm honestly torn between the orchestrated disappearance Only because his, why would your friend be like, he's crafty enough?
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You know, that seems an on statement. Because if somebody said that about me, could I be you a smart enough to do it? Yeah. But would I do that? No.
00:27:14
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Could you survive? No. I could not. So that I'm torn between that between things. there being a connection between his case and Diane's case. Yeah, and I don't know if that is like he was involved in Diane's murder. like Right. Or the same person or group of people. Right. But I agree there's probably a connection there. Yeah.
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The mystery of Morro Bay deepened that November day in 1986. Hugh Harlan vanished without a trace, leaving behind a truck, his belongings, and a multitude of unanswered questions. Was he a man fleeing a past laden with secrets about his wife's brutal murder, or did the same unseen hand that silenced Diane reach out four years later to pull him under too?
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"'The ocean still rolls against the shore, the fog still drifts over the harbor, and Morro Bay still breathes with its steady rhythm. But for those who know Hugh, there's an absence that has never lifted, ah silence that still begs to be broken, forever linked to that unsolved murder that preceded it.'" Hugh's disappearance is still officially unsolved. If you have any information, no matter how small or insignificant it may seem, regarding the disappearance of Hugh or the murder of Diane Harlan, please contact the Morro Bay Police Department at 805-772-6225.
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